[OT] mobile rising

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 06:27:15 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 01:13:00 UTC, codephantom 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 00:09:51 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>> Grøstad wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Redhat have demonstrated that it can be done. GPL is not the 
>> obstacle. The obstacle is the desire to control/dominate a 
>> market. There, GPL will do you harm, because you are required 
>> to release your source code changes back to the community - 
>> and hence your competitors.
>>
>> [...]
> And it didn't preclude Google to dominate the smartphone 
> market. Android kernel IS Linux kernel.

The Android kernel on Android is an heavily customized fork of 
Linux and probably the only GPL component left on the AOSP source 
tree, now that GCC has been replaced by clang, just like Apple 
did on their SDKs.

Fuchsia has zero GPL components on it.